Wishing you a speedy return to good health,
Steve
Recover, recuperate, rebound, gain strength, get better, get well!
-Kelly
P.S. I second the vote to keep the beard.
Many blessings of healing to you, Benedict. If it wasn’t for your help, I would have given up playing the pipes. You got me over the worst learning hump.
- Tom Wolverton
Get well soon!
Dan Humphries
Benedict, you’ll be very much in my thoughts.
Rest up, hope your recovery is thorough and soon!
Bill Haneman
Geez, it’s a good thing I heard about this. I was just about to send you a box of Cuban cigars.
… you could always send them to me. I promise to share them with Pat Sky if he comes down to the Florida Tionol. 
Get better soon. Time for a new dust mask. All best to your family as well. It’s so hard to see a loved one in pain when you can’t do anything to help.
Hope you feel better soon Benedict.
Justine
I hope Benedict gets well soon !
so nobody tell him about his bedridden photo on the net or he may have a relapse
RORY
Get well very soon, Benedict. And thanks for the heads-up, David.
All the best to you and yours, Benedict.
David
hmm so I guess NOW is not the best time to discuss the increments of a chinese dial caliper vs. a german one?
keep 'er lit… or at very least …keep the beard!
get well soon B.
kynchpadraig
german 
Thanks for the post.
I hope you get better soon Benedict.
Best regards,
Daryl Mc.
We are your friends , ben . Hey did you hear the one about the bagpiper from vermont ? He was playing the pipes real hard one night , untill he hicuped and now hes living inside the bag .
Blessings to you, Benedict, and strength to Hillary from your sometimes-Cabot-neighbors and full-time Kentucky admirers.
Cathy and Larry.
Just hoping our friend Benedict is recovering nicely, any updates?